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WHY EDITURZ ARR KNEADED By Rick Helley, Guest Blogger and Senior Editor at Bookstand Publishing I came across this rather amusing item on page 12 of the May 7, 2010, issue of The Week magazine: An Australian publisher has destroyed 7,000 copies of a cookbook after a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people.” The recipe, for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, was meant to call for black pepper, but a typo led a computer spell-checker program to insert the erroneous word. During Read More +